B4pls_v2 by Microsoft Azure

B4pls_v2 is a Bpsv2 family [ARM processor] [Low Memory] [Premium Storage capable] 4 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 4 vCPUs, 8 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.0714 USD per hour.

The B4pls_v2 server is equipped with 4 logical CPU cores on 4 Ampere ARMv8 Neoverse-N1 physical CPU cores, 8 GiB of memory, 0 GB of storage, and no GPU. Additional block storage can be attached as needed.

We have run 53 frameworks on the B4pls_v2 server, and collected 446 performance metrics. Depending on your use case, you might want to look at our Memory bandwidth, Compression algo, or OpenSSL speed benchmarks, among others. As a baseline example, the multi-core Geekbench6 compound score suggests that the B4pls_v2 server is 1.4688x faster than the baseline Dell Precision 3460 with a Core i7-12700 processor.

The pricing for B4pls_v2 servers starts at 0.0714 USD per hour, but the actual price depends on the selected region, zone and server allocation method (e.g. on-demand versus spot pricing options): currently, we track the prices in 122 regions and zones every 5 minutes, and the maximum price stands at 0.164 USD.

The B4pls_v2 server is offered by Microsoft Azure, founded in 2010, headquartered in Washington, United States. For more information, visit the Microsoft Azure homepage.

The B4pls_v2 server is available in 122 availability zones of the following 24 regions: Central India (IN), Jio India Central (IN), Jio India West (IN), West US 3 (US), Central US (US), East US (US), East US 2 (US), North Central US (US), West US 2 (US), Sweden Central (SE), Canada Central (CA), North Europe (IE), France Central (FR), UK South (GB), Germany West Central (DE), West Europe (NL), West US (US), South Central US (US), West Central US (US), Australia East (AU), Southeast Asia (SG), Switzerland North (CH), Japan East (JP), East Asia (HK).

Yes! In addition to the B4pls_v2 server, the Bpsv2 server family includes 7 other sizes: B2pts_v2 (azure), B2pls_v2 (azure), B2ps_v2 (azure), B4ps_v2 (azure), B8pls_v2 (azure), B8ps_v2 (azure), B16pls_v2 (azure).

Looking at the number of GPU, vCPUs, and memory amount, the following top 10 servers come with similar specs: ecs.c4.xlarge (alicloud), ecs.c5.xlarge (alicloud), ecs.c6.xlarge (alicloud), ecs.c6a.xlarge (alicloud), ecs.c6e.xlarge (alicloud), ecs.c6r.xlarge (alicloud), ecs.c6t.xlarge (alicloud).